Food Reviews & Stories This brand-new addition to Portland’s sterling coterie of Lebanese cuisine is much more casual than most—it looks like they maybe domesticated a Sonoran taqueria—with low-priced pita sandwiches ($5-$6) and Lebanese pizzas ($4-$8) featured prominently on the menu, including the bitt   More

Food Reviews & Stories Creative sushi menu, fresh nigiri, truly stellar tempura, super-low prices, and a great whopping fish kite spread across the far wall. So what’s not to like? Well, you’re going to have to wait, because this place is seriously tiny and seriously popular. Luckily, they’ve developed a   More

Books Egotists, narcissists, iconoclasts—they make for good copy. Not only are they compelling in their outsized personalities and their contagious self-made myths, they are often enough also unknowab ...   More

Books The Paris Review was founded in part as a CIA front for co-founder Peter Matthiessen, and has sometimes been as known for its legendarily freewheeling editor George Plimpton as for its sterling conten ...   More

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Ignite Portland 4, which took place last night, Thursday, November 14, is a free event, but nonetheless you need a ticket to get in. I had nearly forgotten mine, and so was pushing hard against the 6:15 deadline,...   More

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WW correspondent Matthew Korfhage was nice enough to send us his musings on last week's Wordstock Festival. And because we're awful people, we haven't gotten the post up until today. Don't worry, it was worth the wait:
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Books Ben Ohara, narrator of David Mura’s debut novel, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire (Coffeehouse Books, 469 pages, $12.95), grows up as a boy who, hearth and heart, is stuck halfway between ...   More

Q & A White people. They’re everywhere, but especially they’re in Portland. They’re out there gingerly sipping their designer lattes in eco-friendly, sweatshop-free slacks, reminiscing fon ...   More

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Listen. As you know by now, possibly from these very pages—although this kind of news now always comes via text message, tragedy's new lightning bolt—David Foster Wallace, fiction writer, essayist, professor, hanged himself this weekend. The news reports all state his age, 46, as if it were a totem of the act itself. It ...   More

News Tim Crouch, ENGLAND, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Wed., Sept. 10, 6:30 pm

There are few things more difficult this week, apparently, than gaining entry to a Tim Crouch show. The normal strings could not be pulled. You could be gallery staff, media, a favored local ...   More